Paint by Magic

Kathryn Reiss

Aug 2003 · HarperCollins

About this ebook

Something is terribly wrong with Connor's mom—she keeps slipping into bizarre trances. Connor suspects that the key to his mom's strange behavior is an old art book filled with paintings of a woman who looks exactly like her. But the artist who created those paintings died before his mom was evenborn.

Connor gets his chance to break the evil link between the past and the present when he is mysteriously whisked back in time to the 1920s. But can he save his mom—and himself—before it's too late?

Ratings and reviews

I had a copy of this book which I have lost, and have been looking for this book for almost 9 years in all bookstores that I came across. The story and its entire plot has made me intrigued to death as I have not finished it. Thank goodness I have found it here, but I still wanted a hard copy.

About the author

KATHRYN REISS is the author of Time Windows, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; The Glass House People; Dreadful Sorry; Pale Phoenix, a finalist for the Edgar Award; as well as PaperQuake: A Puzzle. A master of the time-travel mystery genre, “Reiss slips between past and present with a callous alacrity that is wondrously effective” (Kirkus Reviews). She lives with her family in Northern California. www.midgard.com/KReiss/KReissInfo.html